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    "num": 57,
    "slug": "57-chapter-57",
    "title": "Chapter 57 — Governing Without Action",
    "of": 81,
    "words": 175,
    "text": "## Chapter 57\n\n\nA state may be ruled by (measures of) correction; weapons of\nwar may be used with crafty dexterity; (but) the kingdom is made one's\nown (only) by freedom from action and purpose.\n\nHow do I know that it is so? By these facts:--In the kingdom the\nmultiplication of prohibitive enactments increases the poverty of the\npeople; the more implements to add to their profit that the people\nhave, the greater disorder is there in the state and clan; the more\nacts of crafty dexterity that men possess, the more do strange\ncontrivances appear; the more display there is of legislation, the\nmore thieves and robbers there are.\n\nTherefore a sage has said, 'I will do nothing (of purpose), and the\npeople will be transformed of themselves; I will be fond of keeping\nstill, and the people will of themselves become correct. I will take\nno trouble about it, and the people will of themselves become rich; I\nwill manifest no ambition, and the people will of themselves attain to\nthe primitive simplicity.'",
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